The enemy carried out a plan to cut off the tail, and thousands of soldiers and horses took advantage of the moonlight to break out of Fengqiao Zhu to the east, forcing Huaidong to pursue the Chen Zhen Department in Fengqiao Zhu Dong to shrink back in order to stabilize the position.

Because Chen Yan's troops were too hurried and too close, they could hold their positions at Xu Xiyuan, and they were less than ten miles away from Fengqiao Zhu, and the enemy army rushed up along the north bank of the Xu River.

On one side is the Xu River, which has not been cut off in winter, the flowing water murmurs and sounds under the sky covered with a thin veil, the dry grass on the river beach, the stream and stones are disordered, it is difficult for people to walk, and it is difficult for horses to cross.

Chen Daozi led his troops to join the 3,000 horse infantry army that came from Chen Yandong from the detour, and first gathered the foot formation, and Zhao Bao led his troops to harass along the coast, staggered approaching, and shot each other with bows and crossbows to slow down the enemy's march.

Although there was no reconnaissance to ride out, but from the frightened flight of the birds and the various disposals of the Huaidong soldiers and horses, Zheng Mingjing also knew that a part of the Huaidong army had approached the Fengzhu Bridge, but the foothold was not stable, and he did not expect that they would go out of the town to the east to fight back before dawn.

To be able to defeat the Huaidong Army's vanguard pursuit troops, it is of great significance, and even this soldier and horse going south can be preserved, Zheng Mingjing immediately ordered his subordinates Han Li and others to lead their troops to the north.

The soldiers and horses who went out of the town and port to the east all had the consciousness of fighting to the death to save their relatives, and they fought fiercely, with clusters of men and horses, holding swords and shields, and using bows and crossbows to force the Huaidong cavalry to the periphery.

The two fired at each other, and the arrows rained down, as if the rice stubble harvested after autumn was in the field. The horses that were hit by the arrows were neighing, but the generals who fell from the arrows were able to endure the pain, and under the cover of their colleagues, they quickly withdrew to the periphery.

The Zhejiang-Fujian army has too much advantage in the troops, and the infantry array rushing to the left flank is scattered, but Zhao Bao only has five or six hundred horsemen in his hands, and he does not dare to intersperse - it is useless to intersperse in, and the other side is the Xu River, which cannot be stabbed to the end and penetrated by force, so the casualties will be difficult to control.

Since the Zhejiang-Fujian army rushed forward fiercely, it avoided the sharp mang, hit its weak and weak flanks, and the characteristic of the armored light cavalry was that it was flexible and mobile, and it was too stupid to break up the array of the infantry battalion in the maneuver, find the weak point that was easy to penetrate, and directly attack with the infantry formation.

Zheng Mingjing straddled the horse, and there were less than 20 people on the left and right guards.

At the beginning, in order to ensure the grain and grass in the middle and right wing, the mules and horses collected were mainly arranged into the middle lane, and there were few camels and horses on the left wing. At night, the troops were divided in Fengqiaozhu, and there were only more than 2,000 mules and horses, and they were all given to the west to withdraw troops and horses.

At this time, the sky is getting brighter, but it is dim as if in deep water, and there is fog on the surface of the river, and it is along the banks of the river to the river......

Zheng Mingjing raised his head and looked into the distance, and at this time a fog arose, which was neither good nor bad.

The cavalry is flexible and flexible, and the fog can provide stronger concealment, and at any time from a closer distance to attack the marching infantry array, but Huaidong has a chasing army at the source of the Xu River, as long as the fight is fierce and resolute enough, it can make the Huaidong army only have more than 1,000 cavalry dare not chase the soldiers and horses retreating westward.

As long as you fight resolutely enough, as long as you bite the vanguard of the Huaidong chasing army, under the cover of the fog, you can avoid less interference from the flanks of the Huaidong cavalry......

Putting the ground to death and resurrecting and fighting against the water, you can fight more freely! More dripping!

Under the leadership of Zheng Mingjing and under the cover of the Xu River and the scattered foot soldiers on the left flank, the left wing of the Zhejiang-Fujian army quickly penetrated eastward and approached the headquarters of Chen Yan.

Under the mist, hundreds of nocturnal torches along the riverbank to the east were reflected in the Xu River, like dense and dim stars in the sky......

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"Fuck, fuck!" Zhou Pu straddled the horse and scolded.

Zhou Pu led 400 cavalry around to the north of Fengqiaozhu, but no one paid attention.

The left wing of the Zhejiang-Fujian army successively went out of the town port to the east and attacked the upper reaches of the Xu River, there were six or seven thousand soldiers and horses, and the sky was brighter, and soldiers and horses began to go out of the town port from the west and go along the Xu River to Gucheng.

At this time, Zhou Pu was naturally aware of the left flank of the Zhejiang-Fujian Army's broken tail to survive.

The plan of the Zhejiang-Fujian army to cut off the tail was too ruthless, and almost half of the soldiers and horses were left to be killed after the break, in order to protect the other half of the soldiers and horses, so that Zhou Pu, who had always dared to fight tough battles, also had a numb scalp.

The so-called "ten encirclements, five attacks, and double battles", Huaidong pursued the left wing of the Zhejiang-Fujian army and could put in troops, and only the main force of the Chongzhou Army and the Changshan Army, plus the cavalry battalion, could barely gather 25,000 or 6,000 men and horses, and the left flank of the Zhejiang-Fujian army had an advantage in troops, but the advantage did not even reach the level of "fighting twice".

Lin Jian made up his mind to make Zhou Tong lead his troops to pursue, that is, to take advantage of the mentality of the left flank of the Zhejiang-Fujian army to retreat westward, and to use the main force of the infantry battalion in the relatively open area between Maoshan and Jiuzishan to catch up with the left flank of the Zhejiang-Fujian army in the field, first defeat, and then use the advantage of the cavalry battalion to block the road of the Zhejiang-Fujian rout to the west, so as to achieve the goal of eliminating the living force of the Zhejiang-Fujian army.

Obviously, it is an impossible task to annihilate the nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses left on the left flank of the Zhejiang-Fujian army on the plain at the western foot of Maoshan Mountain.

It can be said that Zheng Mingjing let go of all the soldiers and horses on the left flank at this time, and fled westward, and let Huaidong's soldiers and horses chase and kill, and he could escape half of the men and horses. Of course, if the left wing of the army and horses can finally collect half of the fugitives, the skeleton will inevitably be scattered, and they can only be scattered and integrated into other armies, and it will be difficult for them to exist as an independent combat force.

Zheng Mingjing survived by breaking his tail to save an elite combat force for the luxury family.

In the future, the war in Jiangxi will inevitably be unusually cruel, and the luxury family has lost troops and generals in the past two years, and there are fewer and fewer Fujian soldiers in their hands. This time from Huizhou to the north, Su Zhanting, Tian Chang and other generals from Zhejiang County all acted as the main force.

"Go west, or go back?" Ma Po Monkey leaned over with his horse and asked.

"Chase a fart!" Zhou Pu scolded hatefully, turned his horse's head and walked back, there were a lot of Zhejiang-Fujian troops who divided his troops to march east along the Xu River, and the situation of the eastward advance was so fierce that he was worried that Chen Yan would not be able to stop it...... If you can't eat mutton, you will end up in a commotion, but the gains outweigh the losses.

"So what's next?" Ma Po Monkey Lai Skin face, so he doesn't care whether Zhou Pu's tone is good or bad. Although Lin Jian repeatedly asked the generals to regard their subordinates as their sons and nephews, and it was strictly forbidden to beat and scold badly, there were really few good-tempered generals in the Huaidong Army, and when they caught someone scolding, scolding people was the same as scolding their grandsons, and they were used to scolding back and forth, Ma Po Monkey just didn't hear it, and then said, "Look at the other side of the river, it seems that it is going to fog, the speed of the thief army's eastward advance is not slow, and it is really going to be foggy, let them collide with the Dengcheng Tiger, the situation is not good......"

After the Zhejiang-Fujian army was broken, the soldiers and horses had the courage to die, and it was a battle against the water, compared with the combined forces of the Chen Yan Department and the cavalry battalion, the strength was still superior, and the main force of the Chongcheng army led by Zhou Tong was still quite a long distance, and it was really necessary to fight in the fog, which was not good for the Huaidong army.

"We chased after us along the north bank of the Xu River, biting our butts and beating them," Zhou Pu said, "We must drag down the offensive of the thief army before the fog forms, and we can't form a melee!" ”

Chen Yan led the department to run too quickly, causing the Zhejiang and Fujian army to break off the soldiers and horses to take advantage of, but Chen Yan this kind of dare to fight and can fight the spirit, Zhou Pu still appreciates - the war in eastern Fujian, Chen Yan has repeatedly made military exploits, if the Chen Yan Department to defeat, disabled, Zhou Pu to Lin Tie is also very explained, regardless of the left wing of the Zhejiang and Fujian army in Fengqiao Zhu still has a small number of troops left, and regardless of the left wing of the Zhejiang and Fujian army to withdraw troops and horses to the west, led two sentinel cavalry, directly inserted to the Fengqiao, pulled out the sword, commanded the cavalry, the left wing of the Zhejiang and Fujian army eastward marching soldiers and horses, bite the tail and attack.

Zhao Bao also avoided the edge of the front wing and moved to the back of the side.

Zheng Mingjing wanted to ensure the frontal attack power and protect the flanks from the threat of the Huaidong cavalry during the attack, and the troops left for the rear were very limited. Zhou Pu also didn't care about the enemy's bow and crossbow very dense, if the bow and arrow were so consumed, it was bound to delay for a long time, so Zhao Bao was called to the rear of the formation, he personally led one hundred and eight horsemen, each wearing an extra armor on the body, he changed into a long lance for horse fighting, holding the reins in one hand, and rushed straight to the enemy formation, the long lance that danced was like a bright sun in the mist, and first picked up the two big shields in front of him, and at the same time used the sharp blade of the lance to draw a large blood groove on the cheeks of an enemy pawn......

In the Huaidong Army, who is known for his martial bravery, Mrs. Qian Guo is not counted, and Zhou Pu is the first, and he and Ning Zechen worked together to capture Sun Zhuang under the horse. Sun Zhuang was worried about this, and wanted to find Zhou Pu several times to fight each other to decide between male and female, but Zhou Pu never wanted to.

The current situation forced Zhou Pu to take the lead in dragging down the enemy's offensive, and even if the enemy's shield was killed, the left and right were so excited that they screamed, ignoring the rain of guns and arrows, and rushed in.

The war horse is high, although the arrows are constantly hit, but after the blood is stretched, a few arrows are hung on the shoulders and abdomen, and they can not be supported, everyone is double-armed, as long as the head and face are not shot by random arrows, even if the legs and feet are hit by arrows, it will not affect the battle in a short time, once the enemy array of several large shields is picked apart, and the spears stretched out diagonally from the enemy formation are disrupted, there is a gap for the cavalry to break through......

Zhao Bao led his troops to pry in the back for a while, and when he saw that the gap was opened, he led his troops to follow up.

Zhao Bao learned knives from Zhou Pu, Wu Qi and others, and was not accustomed to using guns and lances, and Ma Zhan was good at cutting horses with long knives.

As a general who has risen in the younger generations, Zhao Bao is the strongest among the three Zhao brothers, but the reputation in the army is not just strong in merit, and it must be fought on the battlefield. Zhao Bao was incorporated into the Huaidong cavalry camp as a cavalry general, and there were not many opportunities to participate in hard battles and hard battles, with his temperament, how could he let people point fingers at the back and say that he relied on his brother Zhao Hu to achieve the position of cavalry battalion general?

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Zheng Mingjing led his troops to Xu Heyuan, and as soon as he came into contact with the Chen Yan Department, he heard the cry of urgency.

Zheng Mingjing left more than 1,000 soldiers and horses behind the formation to prevent the flanks from being attacked, but Zhou Pu and Zhao Bao's troops went around the flanks and had nearly 1,000 cavalry together, and attacked the rear of the formation.

Although the generals in the rear have the intention of fighting to the death, they can't bear the brave generals of the Huaidong Army, fight and rush, and the time that can support a stick of incense does not collapse, and it is also the death support of the generals who are desperately there......

Zheng Mingjing watched the fog getting heavier, and regardless of whether the flanks were empty or not, he called his general Han Li back: "You lead six hundred people to fight back, as long as you block until the dawn of the day, you will wade into the water and go south, don't care about this side anymore." If you break up, meet at the East Sheba at noon! ”

The water of the stream is not deep, shallow, or even waistless, but this kind of weather makes people wade across the river, and if they can escape to the south bank, they will lose half their lives...... Han Li did not hesitate to agree.

After fighting, there was no turning back, Zheng Mingjing had to continue to fight eastward, and then there was a rocky shoal to the east, at this time, the fog rose again, and the main force going south could cross the Xu River from that shoal, and asked Han Li to lead his troops to go to the six hundred people after the break, and he didn't plan to have a few people survive, and non-cronies could not undertake this responsibility.

Zheng Ming abandoned his horse on foot, held the double halberd used in foot combat, wore heavy armor, and surrounded by the left and right armor pawns, he attacked the Huaidong army with arrows......

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The enemy soldiers marched very quickly, Chen Daozi led his troops to rush back with Chen Yan, and just retracted and gathered his position, the rear foot of the Zhejiang-Fujian army arrived. The Zhejiang-Fujian army arrived and fought without a little hesitation.

In order to avoid the recurrence of the decisive defeat of Zhou Pu's troops on the periphery of Fangjiawa's Zhejiang-Fujian army to Chen Yan's head, in order to buy more time for Chen Yan, Chen Daozi led a light cavalry to counterattack the Zhejiang-Fujian army's infantry from the front.

Chen Daozi was also Sun Zhuang's general in his early years, and he was a colleague with Dengcheng Tiger Chen Yan when he was in the Huaisi Army, and he had a fateful friendship. In other words, most others will guard the duty of covering the flanks, and the matter of guarding the position will only make Chen Yan carry it hard.

Although the armored cavalry has the advantage of flexibility and mobility, when fighting with the infantry formation, it cannot penetrate the enemy formation, and if it does not have the advantage of fighting in terms of troops, it is easy to be trapped in the enemy formation.

The light cavalry sword is three inches longer than an ordinary knife, but no matter how long it is, it is impossible to longer than a spear. When Lin Jian equipped the cavalry with a war knife, he made it clear that the combat mission and direction of the cavalry battalion would always be on the flank.

Chen Yan saw that Chen Daozi led a light horse to the top, but he couldn't resist the enemy's fierce strength, and people kept falling from their horses, knowing that they couldn't hold their positions just by guarding. He led his troops to move forward lightly, except for mules and horses, the generals and pawns of the army were too cumbersome to even have large shields, and there were no sharp weapons such as flying contradictory vehicles to defend the position.

The war was fought with momentum, and the old stains were called Dengcheng Tiger, and this truth could not be clearer...... At this time, Zhou Pu and Zhao Bao led their troops to fight the back of the enemy's army, and Chen Yan's general Li Baidao called his subordinates: "Rush the thief army, you and I can only watch others walk with their noses crossed in the future, are you willing?" ”

"How?"

"Chen Daozi is in front, you lead someone to cut in from the left flank, follow up, someone is in the way, Mo blade chops his mother. Ask me how to fight, ask a fart! Chen Yan said with a scolding gesture.